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  • noun Plural form of patient.

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Examples

  • Director General Amano said that, "the IAEA is working to improve outcomes for cancer patients in the developing world and this concert is very meaningful in helping to lift patients´ spirits and make more people aware of IAEA´s PACT activities."

    IAEA Top News RSS Feed 2010

  • Findings from the Diabetes Impact Survey † indicate that healthcare practitioners (HCPs) thought they and their peers were more likely in recent years to prescribe additional therapies at an earlier stage in a patient's treatment regimen. 1 However, according to HCPs surveyed, less than 50\% of their patients are achieving their target HbA1c ‡ goal2 and a survey of patients§ indicated that 40\% reported complications associated with their disease. 3 HCPs surveyed estimated that significantly more of the national diabetes budget is being allocated to treatment of diabetic complications than to prevention. 4 These survey results were released today in conjunction with the upcoming World Diabetes Day on 14th November.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2008

  • In the House of Representatives, they passed a bill which they called the patients 'bill of rights which did not guarantee a single, solitary thing I just described to you, and left 100 million Americans out of what little it did provide.

    Remarks By The President At Unity Dinner ITY National Archives 1998

  • Serum therapy in the form in which it finds application in the treatment of diphtheria patients is an antitoxic or detoxicating curative method.

    Emil von Behring - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • Amongst the patients is an unfortunate child of eight years old, who in the pronunciamiento had been accidentally struck by a bullet, which entered her left temple and came out below the right eye, leaving her alive.

    Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843

  • Eastern Health told CBC News that it had cleared its emergency rooms to prepare for what it described as patients who are critically ill and hypothermic.

    Top Stories - Google News 2009

  • We learned about the different disorders and addictions of the clients (that's what they call their patients), how to interact with them and what to expect from them.

    Ontario Blogs Feed 2009

  • The vacuum created by the lack of healthcare for GID patients is also the result of a wrong association being made between people diagnosed with GID and those who engage in sexual fetishes.

    Sugar and spice and all things neurobiological 2009

  • The vacuum created by the lack of healthcare for GID patients is also the result of a wrong association being made between people diagnosed with GID and those who engage in sexual fetishes.

    Sugar and spice and all things neurobiological 2009

  • Recruiting patients is difficult; often, a majority of those who are eligible do not participate.

    The unacceptable face of medical research Ben Goldacre 2010

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